[Wiki Loves Monuments] Fwd: Moving monuments database to Wikidata

Jane Darnell jane023 at gmail.com
Thu Jul 30 13:43:35 UTC 2015


https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_WLM

On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 2:45 PM, Nicolas VIGNERON <
vigneron.nicolas at gmail.com> wrote:

>
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> 2015-07-30 14:36 GMT+02:00 Jane Darnell <jane023 at gmail.com>:
>
>> Nicolas,
>> Your mail makes my Wikidatan heart beat with delight! Yes, this is
>> definitely the direction we need to go, but sadly, not all Wikipedias will
>> adjust their policies at the same rate.
>>
>
> Thank you.
>
> I believe/hope it's just a matter of time.
>
>
>>
>> I think we should start by getting this conversation off this mailing
>> list and start to work on some project pages on Wikidata. Right now we only
>> have these:
>> https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Category:Cultural_WikiProjects
>>
>
> True.
>
> Probably on
> https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_Cultural_heritage
>
> We started a
> https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_France/Monuments_historiques
> for France, maybe other countries should start one too since every country
> is different.
>
>>
>> There is no "Wiki Loves Monuments"  page yet but there should be a whole
>> category, like what we have for SoaP here:
>> https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Category:WikiProject_sum_of_all_paintings
>>
>
> This porject is mad (in a good way).
> I lack time but that could be a great idea to do the same for monuments !
>
> My original mail in this thread is about moving the monuments db which is
>> currently here:
>> https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Monuments_database
>>
>
> Sadly this project seems a bit dead...
>
> Plus, for France, as we started the import semi-automatically and
> semi-manually, it's now harder for the bots to import the last half of
> french monuments :s
>
> We need to split that up and move it to Wikidata in all its bits and bobs.
>> Jane
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 2:26 PM, Nicolas VIGNERON <
>> vigneron.nicolas at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> Just an example how Wikipédia and Wikidata can work together.
>>>
>>> On the french Wikipédia, the template:Infobox_Monument already use
>>> Wikidata date. For example, on
>>> https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manoir_de_Saint-Armel on the infobox, you
>>> can see a little +/- sign after the patrimonial status, the country and the
>>> coordinates that redirect to the Wikidata corresponding properties to make
>>> edition easier.
>>>
>>> It's a bit early but in the end, all the Wikipédia lists will come from
>>> Wikidata (and not from lists on Wikidata, from separate items for each
>>> lines of the lists).
>>> We have to wait until 1. the data are all imported in Wikidata (in
>>> progress, done for some countries and not started for others ; roughly 50 %
>>> done for France but we started with the easy ones so we're kind of stuck
>>> right now...) then 2. the templates, tools and modules in the Wikipédias to
>>> be adapted.
>>>
>>> Cdlt, ~nicolas
>>>
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